The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

being made in Boston.
-Whiskers In Londen slang are
known as '~'sidewings."
Russia is said to spend $500, 000,-
900 annually for her armament.
Snow is yet lying Eve and six feet
deep in some Of the Maine woods.
There are said to be 100 college
papers published in the United States.
Some of the best pianos and hand
organs in the world are found in
France.
Female students in colleges in the
United States are said to number
$4,000.
Edwin Booth has been elected an
honorary member of the bohemian
Club of San Francisco.
Some of the timbers of the old
5O-gun frigate SABINE form a portion
of a wharf IN Rockland, Maine.
Salt Is reCorted selling in Michi-
gan at the lowest price known since Its
manufacture was begun-51 cents a
barrel.
There are now published in the
United Kingdom, a new press dlrec-
tory states, 2135 newspapers, distrib'
uted as follows:
Il Wagner Museum, with pictures.
manuscripts, photographs, etc, of the
composer and bis works, has been
opened IN Vienna.
Postmaster c. W. Roby, at Port
land, Oregon, has appointed his wife to
the oAce Of Assistant Postmaster, at a
salary Of Sl27 per month.
A picture by Millet, for which its
Paris owner refused Mr.. Rockafeller's
offer Of 100000, was sold for 5000 in
1859 VIXEN just finished.
Jersey City wants to be the scene
o. the formal official celebration next
December OF New jerseys n humid
redta anniversary as a State.
An Arkansas lion, measuring six
tas. and SIX inches in length, and
weighing I52 pounds. WAS killed re-
csz.!y II Hampstead county.
Bismarck received enough pres
s-s o. barrels Of beer from German
Ezswzs On his recent birthday %anniver-
SAT . sock q brewery Of his own.
-As5z-y Park, New Jersey, is to
Ara a Electrical street railway and
a e1=gaay IS TO pay into the local
E=EZg $500 ye2rly for the privilege.
Il ~ Who died near Snow Hill,
ELrT recently, aged 70 years. is
EA1 = . "a paper to have never had
Il! .asL except two that he was born
VI
-- 5-1ng Of the ren7afns of a
-a11ca o. tie largest size, with a
EcrzI-z q SOUL over two inches in
E.1s, = reported from San An
sZ 1=xzS
-F-zes 40otleart, who died the
-Ee=c .2y, 5 reported to have left the
We @: LIS fortune, estimated at two
al : Z-f millions sterling, to the
CE- q Italy.
The Japanese Government has
oc1sgs1 from tie Krupp Company ten
3-eez11=.re and twenty 12-centlmetre
guns fC- armament of men-of-war now
EZ1@r construction.
The British war ship Raven is
reported ID have been saved from de-
sCCCctao1 II a cyclone in the South
Pacific y q liberal use of oil, which
s--7d tie stormy waters.
An assignee at Suncook, New
Hampshire. has managed TO pay divid-
ends up 70 95 per cent. to the creditors
OF . broken savings bank, and has
something ye. left for them.
The monks OF St. Bernard have
had their famous hospital put in tele-
ph0nic communication with several
nelghbcrIng villages as an aid to their
efforts n Tescuing wayfarers.
-E1.reme suffering from floods pre-
vailed in the Northern Chinese provin-
ces at the time Of publication of local
papers 70 hand, and many persons are
reported on the verge Of starvation.
-Four e~x-GOverlors reside In New
Haven, Connecticut, and are assessed
for taxes on the following amounts:
English, $685. 800; Harrison, S25, coo;
Bigeiow, $4,000 Ingersoll, S35. 600.
Thomas Barnes tells the Harvey
Valley (Oregonl ITEM that, while hunt
Ing for water in Grant county, Ore
gon, he discovered a number of petrI.
Ted trees, some of which are forty feet
in diameter.
Some samples of native bluestone
were brought into Virginia City, New,
from a copper mine near Walker Lake.
1t is said that there is in the mine a
vein Of solid bluestone, eleven feet in
thickness.
The japanese Government is evil
IDENTIFY determined not to be visited by
the cholera this year. 1t has pur-
chased 10000 pounds of carbolic acid
in London, an order that has advanced
the price of the acid in that city.
"A free library is being established
IN New York by the Odd Fellows of
that city, and nearly 25,0 900 books have
beer secured by charging one book for
each admission to entertainments in
the interest of the enterprise.
REPORTS of diseases Of borses or